Historical Participants, Some views of history may be more useful these days than others. It seems that history is going through a rapid decline of a dominant empire, as with the decline of the British Empire. Much of the functionality of the British colonial system transferred to the $US based neo-colonial system of finance, through the IMF, World Bank, western banking, and increasing military enforcement of the regime after the dissolution of the USSR. There was a unipolar-world moment where the western military-financial regime sought to solidify global power and control, in the "Global War on Terror" after 9/11/01. The world was paying for this by using $US, printed in Washington, and based on Saudi oil, and the establishment of global trade in $US, "Super Imperialism", as Michael Hudson called it in 1972. Nixon and Kissinger ran to Saudi Arabia with that football.
"We will take or control all of the energy resources” yes this is our Western world right now with the de-Carbon idiocy and de-industrialization to save energy. Then no meat, no fowl, no house pets to save our world from catastrophe. No cars too. No roads. 15 minutes to travel or present reason to move permit.
The point you make of an Empire in it's moment crashing is quite true and since Das Kapital knows no nation as home so much the better for the Globalist who can use the international system built since WW2 in it's interest to gain more power. The nation state is obsolete as autonomous entity. WHO knows this as do the signatories to the treaty. The government of the United States and all other governments-Russia and China too-is bought by interest groups who combine to co-create policy. Covid is an outstanding example of how simple it is to buy a government. China convinced the DOD to invest 10 billion to let them weaponize it. And now with the investigation into the origin Congress has plausible deniability and can safely look the other way.
Dr. John, you & Jenny look like such a healthy/happy couple - GOD bless you & your family. Appreciate all your informative & powerful articles. Grateful to be on the side of our Lord ...
You give me so much to think about! Most of it is over my head and the concepts are things I have never considered until quite recently. Part of me wishes I didn't know what I know, now and prefers to focus on your lovely garden, but that would be too cowardly, I guess.
This pattern of knowledge itself is a bane, a waste of mental powers, fuels oppositional formations that takes on the same qualities as what they resist.
"Stoltenberg said that NATO has "seen some signs" that Russia requested lethal aid from Beijing in order to strengthen its forces in Ukraine." A county under continuous aggressive assault from NATO for decades now is not allowed to defend itself. Hope the rest of the world sees this.
you are forgetting that all these empires beyond their peak and power, are now a bit inconsequential. Why? Because we are 8 billion people. That is overshoot, which is willy nilly leading to Collapse, globally speaking. The British mooched 1/3 of the world for about 200 years (a savage bunch of assholes to be precise, much like the french, spanish, dutch and portuguese). However none of these empires ever had any clue about biophysical limits, worse they all, much like many rules and leaders today totally ignore a simple fact - that infinite growth (of any kind) is NOT POSSIBLE ON A FINITE PLANET. We are but an irrational yet dominating species.
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"We will take or control all of the energy resources” yes this is our Western world right now with the de-Carbon idiocy and de-industrialization to save energy. Then no meat, no fowl, no house pets to save our world from catastrophe. No cars too. No roads. 15 minutes to travel or present reason to move permit.
The point you make of an Empire in it's moment crashing is quite true and since Das Kapital knows no nation as home so much the better for the Globalist who can use the international system built since WW2 in it's interest to gain more power. The nation state is obsolete as autonomous entity. WHO knows this as do the signatories to the treaty. The government of the United States and all other governments-Russia and China too-is bought by interest groups who combine to co-create policy. Covid is an outstanding example of how simple it is to buy a government. China convinced the DOD to invest 10 billion to let them weaponize it. And now with the investigation into the origin Congress has plausible deniability and can safely look the other way.
well, i guess our current history pretty much sucks.
this status is counterbalanced by the happy photo of real lives being lived productively.
Lovely picture!
Dr. John, you & Jenny look like such a healthy/happy couple - GOD bless you & your family. Appreciate all your informative & powerful articles. Grateful to be on the side of our Lord ...
You give me so much to think about! Most of it is over my head and the concepts are things I have never considered until quite recently. Part of me wishes I didn't know what I know, now and prefers to focus on your lovely garden, but that would be too cowardly, I guess.
Another beautiful picture!
Thanks for helping me find the path!
This pattern of knowledge itself is a bane, a waste of mental powers, fuels oppositional formations that takes on the same qualities as what they resist.
"Stoltenberg said that NATO has "seen some signs" that Russia requested lethal aid from Beijing in order to strengthen its forces in Ukraine." A county under continuous aggressive assault from NATO for decades now is not allowed to defend itself. Hope the rest of the world sees this.
I thought this was gonna be an essay in how to get a girl?
Hi John
you are forgetting that all these empires beyond their peak and power, are now a bit inconsequential. Why? Because we are 8 billion people. That is overshoot, which is willy nilly leading to Collapse, globally speaking. The British mooched 1/3 of the world for about 200 years (a savage bunch of assholes to be precise, much like the french, spanish, dutch and portuguese). However none of these empires ever had any clue about biophysical limits, worse they all, much like many rules and leaders today totally ignore a simple fact - that infinite growth (of any kind) is NOT POSSIBLE ON A FINITE PLANET. We are but an irrational yet dominating species.